I’ve been getting a flood of phishing attempts, supposedly for a “failed ACH payment”. In fact, there are times when, in the time it takes me to delete the ones that made it past my filters and into my inbox, a dozen more show up. Out of curiosity, I checked my spam filter, and found this:

That’s just a piece of the list. In total, I received 1,057 copies of that phish in the course of a couple of weeks. (And every one of them was dated 3-Aug-2011, regardless of when it actually was sent.)

The attachment was supposedly a PDF containing further information. It was, of course, a Windows executable (with “.pdf.exe” at the end of the filename), which AVG says is “VirusFakeAlert”.